PREWRITING STAGE

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PREWRITING STAGE

• BRAIN STORMING
• 4 BASIC METHODS

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TUNING IN
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BUZZING TIME

• Is it appropriate for teenagers to have BGR
  during their junior college years
• In your groups, write down as many points as
  possible on paper.

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Brainstorming

• 1st stage in your GP essay
• 3 key points
• Generation of ideas
• No evaluation
• M M rule
• CAF, PMI, 2PIES, SPERM

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LESSON
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CONSIDER ALL FACTORS

• CAF
• Think about all the factors that contribute to a
  phenomenon.
• SOCIAL, ECONOMICAL, CULTURAL,POLITICAL, MEDIA, ME
• What are some of the factors important to
  teenagers?

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Friendship Social acceptance, soul mates
MEDIA Appearance Skin, Muscles Fashion, style
SOCIAL Family parents, siblings
C A F
ECONOMICAL Material wants Branded goods, Big
house,
POLITICAL Meaningful life Freedom, Leadership in
CCAs
Teens
Academic Good school, Results, Mr Pang
CULTURAL Love Companion, puppy
love, infatuations
???
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P M I

• PLUS ADVANTAGES, PROS
• MINUSDISADVANTAGES, CONS
• INTERESTING QUOTES
• Good strategy for presenting an objective and
  rational point of view
• Adolescence is the best and worst part of ones
  life.

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PIMPLES
Increase in freedom
MINUS
PMI
Adolescence
Prime of youth
LACK OF
Free from responsibilities
PLUS
A LEVELS
INTERESTING ONCE IN THE LIFE TIME FIRST
LOVE, BIG CRUSHES
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2 P I E S

• 2P PSYCHOLOGICAL PHYSICAL
• INTELLECTUAL
• EMOTIONAL
• SPIRITUAL
• Good for Personal/ Individual Qns
• Through-train education system an excuse for
  Elitism?

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PSYCHOLOGICAL Out-out touch with the rest,
snobbish attitude
SPIRITUAL Moral values e.g. Community work
missing
2PIES
Through-train Education
EMOTIONAL No room for failure, Sense of
insecurity
PHYSICAL Better facilities More funds avaliable
INTELLECTUAL Expatriates teachers Masters
graduates
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S P E R M

• S Science technology
• P Personal Views, Politics, Philosophy
• E Environment, Education, Economics
• R Race Religion
• M Mass Media, Moral Values
• Is cohabitation is a preventative solution for
  our increasing divorce rates?

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Economics Marriage Gives greater Financial
security To a child-bearing mother
Society Responsibility of Children?
Mass Media Onslaught of fashionable Swingers
lifestyle
SPERM
cohabitation
Education PCCG secuality education
Race Religion Frown upon in all
religions except in US cults
Philosophy ???
Moral Values Non-committing Free
easy promiscuity
Politics LKY made a point Of marrying his
girlfriend Before living together With her.
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CONCLUSION
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MY POUND OF FLESH

• The young people of today think of nothing but
  themselves. They have no reverence for parents or
  old age. They are impatient of all restraint.
  They talk as if they alone know everything.
  These words were written many years ago. Are they
  true today?